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The collective GRAIN argues that while African governments proclaim their commitments to food self-sufficiency, behind the backs of their people they are signing an alarming number of deals with foreign investors that give these investors control over their countries’ most important agricultural lands, including rice lands.
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GRAIN is a small international non-profit organization that works to support small farmers and social movements in their struggles for community-controlled and biodiversity-based food systems.
See the GRAIN briefing, ‘Nerica: another trap for small farmers in Africa’, January 2009, http://www.grain.org/briefings/?id=215.
See GRAIN, Oryza hybrida blog, ‘Mali: a Libya–Chinese rice landgrab strikes a blow to local farmers’, posted 1 December 2008, http://www.grain.org/hybridrice/?lid=212.
Libya's sovereign wealth fund is the Libyan Investment Authority.
Temoust, ‘Signature de convention entre la Chine, la Libya et le Mali’, 3 November 2008, http://www.temoust.org/spip.php?article7056.
Organization, CGC Overseas Construction Nigeria Co. Ltd, http://www.cgcoc.com.cn/en/org_content.asp?classid=L290202andnewsid=712231659508670.
Cheetah Index, ‘$30 m Libyan Investment in Rice Growing for Liberia’, Tripoli Post, 23 December 2007, http://business.africanpath.com/article.cfm?articleID=48228.
Libyaonline.com, ‘Libya to recruit large number of workers’, 13 October 2008, http://www.libyaonline.com/business/details.php?id=6433.
GRAIN, ‘Seized: The 2008 landgrab for food and financial security’, October 2008, http://www.grain.org/briefings/?id=212.
Maliweb, interview with Abdalilah Youssef, 10 November 2008, http://www.maliweb.net/category.php?NID=37605.
ReliefWeb, ‘Liberia: Liberia offers to assist Liberia in rice production’, Liberian Times, 17 December 2008, http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/KKAA-79Z8B6?OpenDocument.
Temoust, ‘Les investissements libyens sont une aubaine pour le Mali’, 15 May 2008, http://www.temoust.org/spip.php?article5388.
Maliweb, interview with Abdalilah Youssef, 10 November 2008, http://www.maliweb.net/category.php?NID=37605.
Tom Burgis, ‘Lonrho secures rice land deal in Angola’, Financial Times, 16 January 2009, http://farmlandgrab.blogspot.com/search/label/Angola.
GRAIN, ‘Oryza hybrida blog – Information and analysis for the resistance to hybrid rice’, http://www.grain.org/hybridrice/?blog.
See the Nyéléni conference website at http://www.nyeleni.org.
Further reading
GRAIN (2008) ‘Seed Aid, Agribusiness and the Food Crisis’, Seedling, October 2008, http://www.grain.org/seedling/?id=564.
GRAIN (2008) ‘The Food Crisis and the Hybrid Rice Surge’, Seedling, July 2008, http://www.grain.org/seedling/?id=551.
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Exposes the double dealing of governments and business in Africa over rice land grabs
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KARAT. Rice Land Grabs Undermine Food Sovereignty in Africa. Development 54, 31–34 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1057/dev.2010.98
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